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Frances Burney

Born

in Lynn Regis, England, The United Kingdom

June 13, 1752

Died

January 06, 1840

Genre

Fiction, Romance

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Also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay. Frances Burney was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In total, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty volumes of journals and letters.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 27,288 ratings · 2,011 reviews · 543 distinct works • Similar authors

	Evelina 3.71 avg rating — 18,608 ratings — published 1778 — 128 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cecilia by Frances Burney, Margaret Anne Doody (Editor), Annie Ellis, Peter Sabor (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 3,951 ratings — published 1782 — 240 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Camilla by Frances Burney, Edward A. Bloom (Editor), Lillian D. Bloom (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 2,914 ratings — published 1796 — 220 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties 3.77 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 1814 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journals and Letters by Frances Burney, Peter Sabor (Editor), Lars E. Troide (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1840 — 224 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Novels of Fanny Burney (Annotated) by Frances Burney, M. Mataev (Editor) 3.71 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cecilia: Or Memoirs Of An Heiress, Volume 1 3.61 avg rating — 106 ratings — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, V2 3.88 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1782 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 3.91 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1782 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diary of Fanny Burney 4.08 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1940 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Frances Burney

Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney 1786-1791 (5 books)
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Frances Burney,

Nancy E. Johnson (Editor)

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Quotes by Frances Burney (?)

“Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.”
― Frances Burney, Evelina

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“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”
― Frances Burney, Evelina

tags: generosity, pain, pleasure

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“She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.”
― Frances Burney, Evelina

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Polls

February 2021 Old School Poll

The Warden by Anthony Trollope 1855, 336 pages

66 votes, 22.1%

Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 134 pages

58 votes, 19.5%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages

55 votes, 18.5%

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott 1884, 96 pages

38 votes, 12.8%

Evelina by Frances Burney 1778, 455 pages

34 votes, 11.4%

Germinal by Émile Zola 1885, 592 pages

29 votes, 9.7%

Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis 1881, 236 pages

18 votes, 6.0%

298 total votes

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